Improvement in whips



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ANTHONY SCHARFF, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA Letters Patent No.92,372, lated efuly 6, 18th).

IMPROVEMENT 1N Warns.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part of thesame.

To all whom it ma/y concern:

Be it known that I, ANTHONY SCHARFE, of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, haveinvented an Improvement vin Whips and I do Vhereby declare the followingto be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention consists in the substitution of a steel wire, or itsequivalent, for the strips of whalebone which arc ordinarily used forstiffening and for imparting the necessary degree of elasticity towhips, the said wire being perfectly elastic, not liable to becorne bentor broken, cheaper', and free from all the objections arising Afrourtheemployment ot'- whalebone in whips. y

In order to enable others skilled in the art t0 make and apply myinventionI will now proceed to describe` the mode of carrying the sameinto effect, reference beinghad to the accompanying drawing, which formsa part of this specification, and in which- Figure 1 is a side View,partly in section, of sufficient of a whip to illustrate my invention;

Figure 2, a transverse sectional View of the same;

Figure 3, a view of part of an ordinary whip.

The' central portion of an ordinary carriage-whip consists of one ormore rounded or partly-roumled pieces of whalebone, which are thickestat thebut, and gradually taper' to a small diameter at the oppositeexible end of the whip. To thiscent-ral stiifening of whalebone areglued or otherwise secured strips of rattan or light flexible wood,which'are also thickest at the but ofthe whip, bnt'do not extendentirely to its opposite end, the strips being bound together bysuitable cords, and the whole heilig covered by the outer wrapping ofthewhip, which may be of leather or any other suitable material. y

The Whalebone is used for the purpose of imparting the necessary degreeof elasticity to ,the whip, an ob'- ject which it accomplishes well fora short time, or so longr as the whip is carefully handled and notexposed to wet or dampness. v n

` The whalebone, however, is apt to become permanently bent or broken,if an unyielding object is accidentally struck by the whip; it alsofraysout at vthe end after a short period of use, as shown in fig. 3, and

thus destroys the utility and appearance of the whip, and when exposedto dampness, it soon loses its elasticity, and becomes so warped andbent asto be almost useless.

All of these objections I have entirely overcome by substituting afinely-tempered steel wire, of small diameter, for the whalebone, thiswire imparting the necessary degree of stiness to the whip, beingperfectly elastic, and not liable to bend or break, while its cost isconsiderably less than one-half of that of the whalebone.

It will be understood that this wire is of such small diameter, (lessthan a sixteenth of an inch,) and is so perfectly elastic, thatthe whipwillb'e no more severe than one in which whalebone is used.

It will be seen, on reference to figs. land 2, that no change whateveris made in the manufacture of the whip, the wire being enclosed betweenstrips of rattan,

and completely covered, in the same manner as the.

whalebone.

Although I prefer-to use a steel wire, I do not con'- fine myself to thesame, if a wire of any other metal shall be found to answer the purpose.

I therefore claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patenty p A whip,consisting of' an outer wrapper,enclosing a strip of rattan, withinwhich a wire is secured as specified.

In testimony whereof, I have signedv my name to this ,specilieatiom inthe presence of two vsubscribing witnesses.

A. SCHARFE.

Witnesses E. Il. BAILEY, LoUls 'Boswsnrh

